Fellow Alumni, Students and Friends,

Welcome to the new Web site of the University of Illinois Latina/Latino Alumni Association (IllinoisLLAA)!

We are pleased that you are visiting our Web site to learn more about our organization, its accomplishments during the past few years and our upcoming events.We are proud to be the first official University of Illinois Latina/Latino Alumni Association.

Our mission is to establish, maintain and promote a network for the empowerment and advancement of Latina/Latino alumni, students, faculty and staff at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and beyond. Our professional network aims to help and support University of Illinois alumni in the professional realm as well as help and support current University of Illinois students in their efforts to obtain a university degree. Our Web site details some of the professional networking events IllinoisLLAA has sponsored since its inception, and it also describes our members’ participation in student mentorship efforts and our organization’s establishment of student scholarship programs.

Please register to receive information and updates about our future events. Please also consider joining IllinoinsLLAA as a paid member, so we can work together to fulfill our noble mission, achieve our goals and move our community forward, today and into the future.

Sincerely,  

Raymond Valadez

Co-Chair, IllinoisLLAA